collective behavior
1. summary
The term of collective behavior refers to social processes and events.
Examples of collective behavior include :
religious revival meetings and people in a fiery movie theater
collective behavior is characterized by group behavior in three different ways.
First, collective behavior involves a restrictive, short-lived social interaction.
Second, collective behavior has no definite social boundaries.
Third, the group causes universal norms.
Traditionally, collective behavior in social groups consists mainly of the crowd, the public, the mass, and the social movement.
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A crowd is a group of people sharing goals or intentions with each other.
And these people affect each other.
There are theories of Contagion theory, Convergence theory, and Emergent-Norm theory.
The contagion theory is believed to spread from one part of the group to another, and then to another.
The convergence theory is that the collective action of the crowd is the result of a fit of like-minded individuals.
That is, a group of similar people gather together.
Thus, these groups may have one direction.
Emergent-Norm theory argues that the union is a combination of like-minded individuals, anonymous and shared feelings.
This emergent-Norm theory takes a symbolic interactionist approach to understanding crowd behavior.
2. my opinion
I did not know the difference between collective behavior and social movements.
However, I got to know clearly when I looked at the article.
In particular, theories of Crowd Behavior was most interesting.
The reason is that the crowd behavior theory appeared to be well reflected in reality.
As the crowd begins to gather, they can see more and more people growing up and improving.
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